Source: sify.com UTTARAKHAND, INDIA, January 14, 2010: The hill state of Uttarakhand is promoting the temple towns of Hardwar and Rishikesh as the biggest urban spiritual tourism destinations in the world on the strength of the Kumbh Mela. The government has sanctioned infrastructure and town planning projects worth US$120 million for the mela, which begins Jan 14. “We are making…
Source:¬†http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=327&page=27 INDIA, January 12, 2010: Every year, India celebrates Swami Vivekananda’s birthday, January 12, 1863, as Youth Day. Swami Vivekananda exhorted the people of Bharat to “be proud to call yourself a Hindu. Have muscles of iron and a heart of steel. Serve the poor, needy and ignorant like your brothers and sisters”. When asked by youth for knowledge from…
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD-TOBAGO, January 12, 2020: The Hindu Festivals Society will host its second annual Makar Sankranti (also called Pongal) celebrations on Thursday. All are invited to join the HFS in its ‘Rudra Gita Gyan Yagna’ as members celebrate India’s biggest and most popular festival, Makar Sankranti. Rituals take place at the HFS Water Festivals Centre, Persad Drive, Los Iros…
Source: www.tabletmag.com LOS ANGELES, USA, January 5, 2009: Yoga, with its meditation, with its mysterious secrets and ties to Hinduism and Buddhism, isn’t just a physiological practice; it’s a spiritual one. And I am a Modern Orthodox Jew. By practicing yoga, I’m now forced to wonder, am I practicing a religion outside my own? Am I sinning before God? When…
Source: www.guardian.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, January 11, 2010: My engagement present was a book of pocket psalms, with yellow highlighter streaked through passages that warned of the eternal damnation that non-believers face. It was presented to me in the small, dark room of a village house on the outskirts of Nairobi by my future father-in-law, a lay preacher. I had gone…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com I used to believe in reincarnation, but that was long ago, in another life. Dave Schinbeckler
Source:¬†http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=327&page=27 INDIA, January 12, 2010: Every year, India celebrates Swami Vivekananda’s birthday, January 12, 1863, as Youth Day. Swami Vivekananda exhorted the people of Bharat to “be proud to call yourself a Hindu. Have muscles of iron and a heart of steel. Serve the poor, needy and ignorant like your brothers and sisters”. When asked by youth for knowledge from…
Source: www.nytimes.com BANGKOK, THAILAND, January 11, 2010: An uproar among Muslims in Malaysia over the use of the word Allah by Christians spread over the weekend with the firebombing and vandalizing of several churches, increasing tensions at a time of political turbulence. The attacks, unlike anything Malaysia has experienced before, have shaken the country, where many Muslims are angry over…
Source: pib.nic.in ORISSA, INDIA, January 12, 2009: The conservation experts and scientists of the Archaeological Survey of India along with the concerned officers of the State Government of Orissa have finished conducted a detailed survey of the Sun Temple, Konark and found that no cracks are developing in the monument. The monument is structurally sound, well conserved and preserved.
Source: www.nytimes.com NEW YORK, U.S., January 6, 2010: If the word “dal” conjures up images of a simple dish of well-flavored lentils, the kind of thing you might see at an Indian lunch buffet, that’s not inaccurate. But it is incomplete, because dal is a generic term for bean dishes, and for the beans and lentils used to make them.…